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It was at Aunt Plantier's that our first meeting took place. I suddenly felt that my military service had made me heavy and clumsy... Later on I thought she must have found me altered. But why should this first deceptive impression have had any importance for us two? As for me, I was so much afraid of not recognising the Alissa I knew, that at first I hardly dared look at her. No! what was really embarrassing was the absurd position of being engaged which they all forced upon us, and everybody's anxiety to leave us alone and hurry away when we were there! “Oh, Aunt! you are not the least in the way; we have nothing private to say to each other,"

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